Colombia backed down and will start accepting deportation flights.
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âŚcalling Trump a âslave trader.â
On the first flights that landed in Colombia the deportees were in handcuffs. This is what triggered the spat from the Colombia end.
The same thing happened in Brazil which is why Colombia insisted on a level of control during the process in the first place.
If the deportees are in fact dangerous criminals, it occurs to me that everyone would be better off if they remained in US American correctional facilities from which they are unlikely to escape. In their home countries they may not even be incarcerated, and I would have to imagine that more than a few will find themselves back in the USSA before too long. Maybe itâs just me, but this smacks less of a law enforcement operation and more of a cynical publicity stunt.
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I drink Ruta Maya coffee, itâs organic shade grown in Chiapas and roasted in Austin, sells for $18 a kilo. Also drink Mississippi Mud Mocha Java which is a blend with beans from Java and Yemen. Itâs roasted in St. Louis and is $27 a kilo. I wonder if or how much a price increase for Colombian coffee would affect the world coffee market as a whole? This could be impactful.
Iâll tell you whoâs really worried about high tariffs on Colombian exports and thatâs Don Junior.
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The cruelty is the point.
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Impactfulnosity can ruin a good day.
As predicted, Trump wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza. His slender man son-in-law is already drooling over the prospect of all that new Mediterranean waterfront property.
Well, that Michigan voting block at least got cheap eggs out of the deal.
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WTF? He moves people in and out of other countries like it is a board game? What a bully.
Yeah, just uproot and relocate millions of people because he wants to build a golf course where they live.
Iâm trying to stay focused on how his actions affect the economy, but itâs hard. One the economic front, This NYT article includes this opening:
President Trump is swinging American energy policy sharply in favor of fossil fuels, but oil and gas companies say those changes wonât push them to engage in the frenzy of new drilling that Mr. Trump wants.
The oil industry is thrilled by Mr. Trumpâs executive orders, which are designed to make life harder for renewable energy companies and easier for oil, gas and pipeline businesses. But on the critical question of whether his policies will lead to more oil and gas production â one of Mr. Trumpâs central goals â industry executives say not unless prices rise a lot, something the president says he will not stand for.
So, Trump plans to make alternative energy more expensive, to spur on O&G, who donât want to act until their energy gets more expensive. We, as consumers, get more expensive energy either way.
It seems that nobody ever told El Presidente de Naranja that oil and gas drilling has a lot less to do with regulations than the cost of a barrel of oil.
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Your average MAGA moron doesnât understand this, but itâs been âdrill baby drillâ under the Biden Administration to the point where weâre oversupplied. We have enough production, weâre focused on lowering our operating costs to make more on what we do produce, not continue to glut the market and lower prices. Most oil companies are planning serious cutbacks on exploration and drilling over the next five years.
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Your dog understands quantum physics better than Trump understands economics.
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So just to be clear here, Trump wouldâve achieved the same outcome for fossil fuels if he had done nothing. So all he has succeeded in doing to slowing down the development of renewable energy, at the cost of American jobs, market share and future business.
[Golf Clap]
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âŚwith renewable being an increasing profit center for increasingly diversified energy production and management companies.
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If you are seeking to cleanse an area of people of a specific ethnicity, is there a term for that?
Racial rinsing.
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